"Multi-cart" menu programming project

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:11 am

eslapion wrote:I have obtained free samples of the DS1220AB. It can keep the data in it for 10 years without battery or external power.

Then what?? I have to save my prefs all over again? And every ten years I have to do the same? Good grief!

Well, considering that my vic is over 25 years old, I am willing to bet that my use of the cart will outlast the memory

(hopefully, my hardware will too!)

PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:39 am

I think what he means when he says it will retain information for 10 years without battery or external power is that, given a regular dosage of current as it is being used now and then over a 10 year period, it would probably retain the information indefinitely.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:41 pm

Jeff-20 wrote: Then what?? I have to save my prefs all over again? And every ten years I have to do the same? Good grief! Well, considering that my vic is over 25 years old, I am willing to bet that my use of the cart will outlast the memory (hopefully, my hardware will too!)

I was considering use of serial eeprom (see hardware thread), for a variety of reasons.

Some of these devices have data rentention of spec of 100 years or 200 years with 10 million read/write cycles.

Interesting:
- who will be around in 100 years to warranty such a spec

- who has time to test 10 million read/write cycles

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:43 am

New menu version, the final name will be "MEGA-CART".

What's new:
New logo
new tiny charset with reverse chars
navigation bar

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to avoid confusion i've removed old menu images, see this post.

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Early menu to select vic memory configuration or cart

Info screen:

Credit screen:

Help Screen page 1:

new filter system:

You may select publisher and exclude hacked carts:

You may select category and exclude tool carts:

New simply video system selection:

When select a cart an info screen start and if present Tips are displayed too:

maybe other things from last version...

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:59 pm

The character set looks much better on real hardware than in Vice!

The "Mega-Cart" logo looks pretty cool

I like idea of page to display publisher info. This is good so as it provides
credit to those who originally created/distributed these great carts.

It also helps with preserving info as part of Vic-20 history.

This categorization was quite a lot for work. Many thanks for NBLA000 for taking this on.

Having the categorization information is very helpful to allow user to pick
the filters that will show the games they want.

Overall game/utililty selection and navigation is extremely smooth

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:58 am

wow, it looks amazing!

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:08 am

vic user wrote:wow, it looks amazing!

It is

Doppleganger · Post by **Doppleganger** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:50 am

Way better than those Atarti 2600 multi-carts.

paytonbyrd · Post by **paytonbyrd** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:08 pm

Is there a homepage or Wiki for this project?

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:33 pm

paytonbyrd wrote:Is there a homepage or Wiki for this project?

I planned to do a project page -

http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/multicart/ (It is hopelessly out of date)

There are so many projects and so little time, that I have neglected web page updates.

If you care to wade thru a pile of mesages, check out hardware forum thread for Multicart and / or the All-In-One Cart thread.

About mid March 2007 I started prototype for my version of "multicart"

There is also a thread in Buy/Sell forum on "MegaCart".

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:45 pm

I couldn't stop myself from celebrating the MegaCart on the front page.

6502dude · Post by **6502dude** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:33 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:I couldn't stop myself from celebrating the MegaCart on the front page.

Cool!

NBLA000 has done a fantastic job on menu and has come up with ideas I could never have envisioned.

KilrPilr · Post by **KilrPilr** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:44 pm

Looks awesome guys! Good work

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:05 am

Jeff-20 wrote:I couldn't stop myself from celebrating the MegaCart on the front page.

Wow

I'm onored to see my Mega-Cart Menu on the front page of Denial.

Today it's a great day.

Anyway software is nothing without hardware.

blackystardust · Post by **blackystardust** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:11 pm

I'm one of the core developers of the VICE emulator package, and I am interested in making multi-cart support once the hardware design is set.